Case Study: Clarke County School District achieves redundant, scalable, weather-resilient surveillance with Vicon

A new surveillance system helped a Virginia school district meet a variety of needs from redundancy to surge protection

Clarke County School District in Clarke County, Virginia, needed a user‑friendly, scalable surveillance system for a newly built high school that could support many indoor and parking‑lot cameras while providing redundancy, surge protection, centralized management, nonproprietary integration, autofocus, and training. Following an AE Works‑facilitated evaluation of multiple vendors, the district selected Vicon to provide IP‑based HD cameras with remote autofocus and ViconNet video management software.

Vicon implemented a distributed‑architecture system that preserves recordings if a recorder fails, provides centralized web access with a single login, stores images for 28 days, and uses rack‑mounted fiber optic cards for fast fault identification and replacement. The solution added surge protection to prevent lightning losses, allows straightforward scalability to add cameras without overhauls, and included on‑site and videotaped training that the district has used multiple times; the Vicon system went live in mid‑2012 and has measurably improved data resiliency, manageability, and maintenance response.

Clarke County School District

Michael Legge

Purchasing Manager